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Chicago examiner vol vii no 211 a m tuesday august 24 1909 price one cent Â» eu "Â« d carrier 30 cent per month curtiss gets speed recordat rheeime french fear he is conqueror by vance thompson aviators wonder how to win after the american goes 6 miles in 8 minutes thousands view flights bleriot offers to give motor to dare-devi latham so new yorker may lose special cable to the examiner rhiiims france aug glenn h curtiss the american aviator made a record here to-day he coveted one lap a distance of li l-o miles in s minutes 3 i!-5 seconds this is the official timing the speed contest admittedly lies be tween curtiss and the frenchman bletiot corliss said to-day i hope i will wiu but one never can tell what will happen 1 think my motoi is perfect 1 have taken every precaution but it is only tbirty-rtveborsepower and the odds are against me since bleriot has an eighty-horsepower engine curtiss early morning flights although only of ten minutes duration alarmed the frenchmen who timed him from start to finiish tbey hastily called a meeting of those interested in defending the french industries it was held iu a shed on thc aviation grounds bleriot said he feared ho was unable to beat the yankee cham pion and was willing to give way to any one more hopeful of outdoing curtiss offers his motor to latham he offered to put his so-horsepower motor in latham's machine this young dare devil being thc only man willing to risk his life in order to preserve french supremacy between 4 and g o'clock this afternoon the air was thick with fliers lefehvre iu a wrighr rose at 4:3a and made two rounds paulham in a voisiu was in the air one hour and seven minutes somnicr made two rounds sanchez bcsa the only spanish contestant fell after flyjng ten i yards at 5 o'clock live machines were ini the air cockburu buuau-yarilla bleriot | and omtner were all in line when laui liiut alongside paulham had au ' ex citing race with lefehvre as paulham was completing his fourth round bieriot with his eighty-horsepower monoplane swiftly overhauled and passed under the biplane he covered the lap before paulham had reached the back stretch and was received amid thunder of applause thousands there from paris attracted by thc sensational perform ance of yesterday when no less than six aeroplanes were seen at the same time winging their flight iu huge circles over u_e plain of betiieny thousands ot specta tors came down ou the early trains from paris and when the dirigible balloon colopel renard appeared over ihe field at 10 o'clock having come from meaux the tribunes and fences lining ihe field already were black with people the renard which i-s the first of the dirigible balloons to arrive carried ut a series of impressive evolutions above the plain cnrtiss the hammoudsport n i flyer w.ati out early and made a satisfactory tria flight of two kilometers bleriot with his eighty-horsepower machine astonished his competitors with the speed he devel oped he traveled so swiftly that curtiss confidence in his ability to capture the in terna tio ' enp has been somewhat shak 1 en this event is the principal feature of the meeting hubert latham has been chosen as the third aviator to represent france in the coot.st for the international cup thc hig evert of the week which will be run off next saturday the others are bleriot and lefebvre this decision was reached by the judges this morning after careful con sideration of the elimination contests held | yesterday tissandier paulham and som mer are alternates to latham tissandier who uses a wright biplane thus fnr holds thc speed record ouly one other wright machine that operated by scbreck re j ninins to compete iu this event the daring performances yesterday of lefebvre have made him extremely popu 1 lar but bleriot and latham still remain 1 the favorites of the crowd russian dirigible in seine occupants swim to safety paris i'rance aug 2_.-the bayard cleinent dirigible balloon built recently by the bayard-clement company for the russian government was wrecked to-day near maisons-laffltte during its prelim inary trial the aviators on board in cluding colonel nach of the russian army were not injured the airship made its ascent successfully and then came down without damage but while on the grouud a gust of wind tore the balloon from thc grasp of forty men who were holding it it was thrown i against trees and telegraph poles near bv ' ripping the gas bag to pieces the shin i ibcu tell into the river seine the four occupants had stuck to the car during i these happenings upon landing in the river they left the shattered ship and swam for the shore they were picked un ' by small boats ' : chicagoan's death a mystery kenosha wis aug 23 officials here are investigating the death of herman mar tin said to be a chicagoan whose bodv was found in twin lakes this afternoon a wound in thc head indicates murder lectin anie here a month ago and was working at u ice house banker-lawyer Taft picks for good place Taft to place h m hoyt or foreign tariff board first man definitely selected ap pointment already made is one report i t-_shix<jtojf i c au 23 henry j\l hoyt 1.011 of a foi*mer govoi-nor of pennsylvania and solicitor genera under president roosevelt is slated for a place â€¢ 013 the foreign tariff lÂ»oa3d and his selec tion probably will he the tirst appointment to that body it was stated in an afternoon paper here to-day that the appointment already had been made but uo confirmation of this statement has been obtained from the president's summer liome however it is considered practically certain in wash iiirtono-that mi hoyt will get the place nnd the official announcement is merely a question of time it has been known all along that mr hoyt was to get a good pe?s,*fciou after he surrendered his place noma the Taft ad | ministration he was first spoken of as a federal judge ami morc._#eceutly as a judge of the customs o,~-t.t j - mr ll,,yt practiced knv for several yea in philadelphia and w â€¢- . irg in i8s ho abandoned the prol'p temporarily tu become assistant cashier af the l_'.uited states bank at new york v cavalry in milk battle one hundred ajtcnls scour i'll ree states to boost prices the milk tight assumed a military aspect yesterday w"hen more than 100 mounted agents rode out of Chicago to hunt the i dependent producers and persuade them not lo make contracts with the big dairies under the price offered by the milk pro ducers protective association this determined body of men under com mand of secretary grier of the producers body is expected to round up as members practically all of the milk producers in the northern and central part of Illinois and such portions of indiana and avisconsin as are within a radius of sixty miles of chi cago the big dairy men will not be able to make contracts under the prices we have offered they will find it necessary to pay our members fair prices or not purchase milk said feeietary grier yesterday after returning from c tour of organization i sclf john d is testy in test pastor only smiles in rockefeller character ordeal un i inks _ clevelaxd ().. aug 23 he didn't have a chance to get impatient anyway was john d rockefeller's remark this afternoon after he had subjected the rev w c bitting of st louis to the golf test which is the oil king's own device for determining the character of a minis ter mr bitting was john d.'s partner the pastor was doing better than the oil magnate all the time and simply smiled his way around the links mr rockefeller himself became a trifle exasperated he likes to win but when the rockefeller bitting pair found itself beaten by seven strokes by j s sweeney of detroit and captain levi scotield the oil king was the flrst to compliment the victors glenn for census head | .... j_.e.vest candidate's friends ncg-oti nte witl hitchcock and lorimer john m glenn secretary of the Illinois manufacturers association burst upou the politicians yesterday as ii new and unex pected candidate for the office of census supervisor for Chicago he first had the matter put up to postmaster general hitchcock by one of his intimates and then sent emissaries to senator william ! lorimer who had spent an hour or two ' jin town and trekked back to fox lake ! mr glenn and several friends also got ! very busy seeking indorsements from j members of his own organization it is ! expected that a delegation will visit the i president in his behalf verv soon and it is claimed he will have the backing of the ; Chicago association of commerce as well as of the Illinois manufacturers associa old correspondent dead jefferson citv mo aug __..- major sam cellar the veteran newspaper corre spondent died at his home here to-uk-ht his widow is a sister of liiited states sen ator diaries j hughes of colorado he was a Taft elector rioters try twice to blow up shops i more bombs are hurled at i mckees rocks strik,ebreak â– er shoots four men â– martial law declared m"send loiterers home or to i the hospital is an order i which is obeyed h pittsi.rrg pa aug 23 more bombs i were hurled to-day l,y striker of the i pressed steel cgr company at mckees i rocks two distinct attempts were made to h wreck the plant by hurling bombs over â– l fence neat the shops iu which cars are â– being finished for use in the hudson fl hirer tunnel in each ease the fuse it i tached to lie bomb was extinguished i,v â– the wet grass into which it fell bbomb hurled at trooper a third bomb was thrown at a sta while he was riding through h george street to-day it fell near his hors hand exploded knocking the horse aad â– trooper to the street the trooper tired hth sliots at the uittn who hurled the e^jborah hut none took effect i according to chief deputy sheriff swart hwood lhe lirst bomb was thrown sooi3 hafter dawn half a dozen deputy sheriffs hon guard 1_ts.de the high fence around the h plant saw a dark ohjeet pass over the h fence and drop iuto the deep grass oue hof the deputies hurried toward the object hl'tit heat a hasty retreat when he saw hi hut it was a bomb with a short fuse â– which was spitting sparks and smoke h fortunately it did uot explode half au hhour after the first attempt to destroy the hear plant which sheltei^d hundreds of hworkmcn tlie deputy sheriffs found a hsuiailcr homb similar to the lirst which hhad beeu thrown over the fence a short hdistance from where the first was found hstrikebreaker shoots four h mike meljinska an alleged strikebreaker himportcd into the company's works at hschocnville caused a panic in tthe big stockade late this evening when he aimed ha revolver at his fellow strikebreakers and hwith now hike for that fence began tiring felling a man with evei-y shot ht hsuc ceded iu pulling the trigger four times â– melilnskr was set upon liy about thirty hof tli strikebreakers and badly beaten hso flfi-cc did the rioting become within the hsi,:â€žkade that sixty deputy sheriffs were â– unable to quel the uprising and thc state he-onstahuhtry were forced to desert the â– streets and snake a wild dash for the i works ihey rescued meljinska i in a dying condition meljinska was put â– out f the hig gate and allowed to lie in a â– semi-conscious condition until one of tlie â– troopers called for the ambulance the â– injured man probably i/ill die before day i town under martial law i mckees rocks is practically under mar it ial law to-night the state troopers now ithoroughly at-oused are holding up every iperson on the streets and searching them â– feu weapons a special train carrying an ladditional troop of state constabulary is i hying across the state to the strike zone i send everybody who hasn't business on bthe street home if they won't go home bscnd them to the hospital was the terse i order given b.v the leaders of the state i constabulary the men obeyed with alac i rity urged by the memory of their fellow i troopers smith and williams who are i dead from last night's rioting i at 10 o'clock to-night president j d cal i lery cf the pittsbrrg street kail ways com i paiiy on whose cars the men were killed i last night suspended service into the i strike district until such time as sheriff a ('. gumbert eau man thc ears with dep uties thinks no passengers safe president callory declares the lives of no passeugcrs are safe from the strikers bow and he has ordered the stopping of all wheels on the nevilles island and the schoenville lines which traverse the strike district trooper jolin c smith died at the mercy hospital in pittsburg this morning mak ing the death roll six pour strikers and troopers kileh and odonnell are dying in different hospitals and the list of most seriously injured numbers seventeen it is claimed that weapons to the extent of a ton of weight were taken from those held up by flic authorities in the vicinity of mckees rocljs to-day these weapons will all he confiscated by the county on orders from sheriff gnmbert gun stores of pittsburg are exercising great care in the sale of weapons scores of persons who looked as though they might be interested in the mckees rocks low we3*e refused the right to purchase weapons in the stores to-day there is a rumor to-night that three strike breakers were killed iu tlie general rioting last night and their bodies hurried into the ohio itiver so persistent ix the rumor that the police ordered a most rigid search of the river bottom with hooks to day hut uo bodies were found fifty men are missing from inside the big stockade of the pressed sl<-e car company but it is thought they all escaped in a body dur ing the excitement last night thirty-five are arrested at j o'clock to-night the total arrests atl mckees rocks was thirty-five two box cars lilled witb those uuder arrest were brougnt to the jail at pittsburg to-night au effort to hold a meetiug of the strikers ou the indian mound to-dav nas prevented by the lnouuted troops several of the troopers weut up to the mound where a few dozen of the strikers were meeting and ordered them to go home two of the leaders appeared auxious to debate with the troopers if there is one of you fellows left here in one minute w'll blow h 1 out of you now just try to start something hy stick ing said one of the troopers as he started his horse on a lope for oue of the leaders and chased biiu dowu over the hill harriman on deck fine."-wireless special trains to run rail road magnate to very door of new home won't dodge reporters ready to talk of experiences v condition far from-serious says secretary ox board thk steamship kaiser jw.lhelm ii by wireless via halifax avtg s.â€”e h harriman for the first j time since the kaiser wilhelm ii sailed i from cherbourg ou wednesday appeared on deck to-day he enjoyed his brief prome nade immensely the rest lie has bad on shipboard is already beginning to have a beneficial effect mr harriman sam tbat be was feeling much better fie is follow professor strnempel's advice regarding nourishment is closely as present eondi lious will permit he chatted with some of the pa.sengersand seemed to be iu fine spirits turners x ~.. aug 23 edward h harriman is to enter his new mountain place at arden to-morrow in imperial fash ion the programme of his homecoming has been planned on a scale truly consist ent with his regal station in the world of finance to-night 0u men worked till near midnight on the mountain top under the glare of long strings of ineaudeseent lamps preparing for the reception of the master yet despite all efforts to rush the work on the mansion harriman will find it more of a quarry than a home for a man who says he is returning from t rope to rest who according to his doc tors demands peaceful influences for the upbuildiug of a tremendously overworked nervous system arden house certainly cannot furnish a cure says harriman will fret 1 have no doubt whatever a repre sentative of the railroad magnate said to day that mr harriman cannot stand it here more than a fortnight the house is so far from completion that he will be gin to fret at the delay and yet while be is here further work will be impossible he never will be able to stand the din of hammers and chisels on reaching new york hai to-morrow ur harrimuu is to be transferred from the steamship to a tender which will bring him directly to his car at the erie terminal in jersey city although it is only forty-eight miles from new york to his home in arden the little railroad czar will make th journey with as much equipment as if starting out ou a transcontinental trip accordingly aa ( , n '_ tire special train will be placed a't'his dis posal from jersey city to the very s(ep s of bis mountain mansion harrimau will travel by railroad on reaching arden ihe special is to be switched from the main line of the erie to mr harrlmau's private rail road a most audacious bit of engineering which climbs to tht top of the mountain through a steep cut through the forest harriman s landing plans new york aug 28 the kaiser wil helm 11 with mr harrimau aboard will reach quarantine early to-morrow after noon and the railroad magnate will speak for himself about bis condition of health and his plans for the future vm ieeling fine is the substance of a message which was received by k g lovetl vice president of the uuiffn pa cific railroad in this city during the af ernoon directly from bis chief the stock market seemed to be al day under the shadow of harrimau approach the nearer he came the stronger prices grew charles g tegethoff mr harrlmau's pri vate secretary to-day completed all ar rangements for the transfer mi harriman will follow his usual cu tom nnd talk to the newspaper reporters this interview will take place on the train en route to arden m tegethoff added tbat neither be no bis chief's intimate frieuds believed that mr harrlman's condition was serious or tbat the eud of ills active career w ; m , hand mrs webb is theresa vaughan onwentsia mystery is cleared lawyer admits spiritualist is woman who rules exclu sive club the singular affair in which mr a t webb assistant secretary of the onwent ia club and soda adviser for many of fhe wealthiest matrons in Chicago and lake forest figured as the supposed double of theresa vaughan who was ar rested last month in a police raid on a negro spiritualistic seance at the home of professor james payne a negro in west congress street has been explained all doubt in the strange case that has agitated the summer colony was dispelled by the discovery that mrs webb herself was theresa vaughan this informatli-n was vouchsafed by her lawyer l d coudee who has offices at 107 dearborn street and who represented her in court following her arrest theresa vaughan was mrs webb's maiden name she is theywidow of dr a t webb once a physician to society in lake forest and Chicago other revelations tending among other things to show that mrs webb is a lncst remarkable woman whorse capabilities have won her a place close to the very heart of society followed each other thick and fast and furnished topics for conver sation that kept the onwentsia verandas in a buzz throughout the day mrs webb agitated mrs webb herself was i_ile agit.tted over the disclosures that she had been arrested with a number of negroes at payne's place in the presence of several women members of the club she de nounced iu terms of extreme bitterness i paul boulter clerk at the clnb and charged him with being responsible for the publicity she bad received thief scoundrel and liar were among the terms she used you were the only one around here who knew about it she cried standing near the two at the time were miss arllss farwell^r^aughter of grauger farwell mrs hobart c chatfield-taylor mrs b st john and miss mabel butler they laughed but they were outside on the veranda and their smiles could not be seen by mrs webb no one at onwentsia ever would think of laughing at anything that was distasteful to mrs webb in her presence for mrs webb is a sort of high priestess at onwentsia admired te spectedâ€”and generally obeyed she ls the dynamic force in fact that lias made the onwentsia club successful one fact in connection with mrs webb or theresa vaughan and professor " payne tbat hitherto had not been made known was revealed by attorney comlee it was that on last saturday judge walker in the municipal court had quashed the complaints against mrs webb or theresa vaughan and a number of other persons arrested in the west congress street raid leave was given the city to amend the charge agaiust payne condee wins their freedom attorney condee wou the freedom of the onwentsia club woman and her associates b.v representing that the ordinance under which they were arrested was contrary to the constitution of the united states the court held with him that the con stitution guaranteed to every persou to worship as 1 he saw it aund that to prohibit spiritualistic seances meant â€ž curtailment of religious liberty professor dyne photograph of mrs wc'ot taken ov the onwentsia club lawn yesterday and a picture of theresa vaughan taken ct the time she was arrested al professor payne's spiritualistic seance Chicago woman is dead in auto crash wife of kankakee merchant also victim others are badly injured kankakee 111 aug 23 mrs george granger wife of a retired kankakee mer chant and miss genevieve rabig 1619 garfield boulevard Chicago an instructor in elocution at st xavier's academy chi cago were instantly killed and five other occupants of a touring car were seriously injured this afternoon when the machine was run down by a caboose and engine at a crossing of the big four railroad on the outskirts of this city the party with their guest miss rabig were on their way to mound grove ceme tery at the time of the accident the auto mobile had started across the track when thc chauffeur saw the engine and caboose approtiching they were then about fifteen feet apart cars on a side track had ob structed the view on the front-seat were the chauffeur mr granger and his ten year-old son mr granger hurled the boy to safety but none of the others had time to jump the automobile completely wreeked was turned over two or three times and rolled to one side of the track the dead women were caught partly under the wreckage of the automobile and the caboose leanette granger a twelve year-old daughter of mrs granger was rolled under the dead bodies of her parent and miss rabig and pinioned under the wreckage she was removed half an hour after the accident when the caboose was jacked up mr granger badly cut about the head was thrown clear of the wreck age as was the chauffeur ambulances reached the scene within a few minutes miss amelia fortin sister of mrs granger was thrown a distance from the wrecked machine and her back was badly injured she was kept iu ignorance of her sister's death while piteous pleading with spectators to save mrs granger whose bodv she could see underneath the wreckage the chauffeur was hurled against the side of a box ear on a nearby track the injured were removed to the emergency hospital the injured and the extent of their in juries follow granger george badly cut about face ami head i'oi'tin mis amelia spine injured and prcb.iblr tatcmal injuries granger miss ikaxette ri.ht lc and arm fractured left les injured badly bruised gil r.k pai'l bruised and shocked dole llt a the chauffeur badly cut atout the head and face and biuised the mother of geneva rabig became hysterica at her home 151(1 garfield bon lev.n-1 vhen informed of her daughter's death neighbors who went to cure for ber locked the flat and excluded all but tin doctors who attended the bereaved woman miss rabig was employed as cashier by a downtown firm she was an accomplished pianist mahon in tiff with roac h calls wage ridiculous arbitration to be offered by traction chiefs as counter proposition to demands of carmen for own pay scale mitten says old men must be protected and declares himself in favor of settling wage controversy for good union officials say men will reject arbitration better terms asked for new em ployes by organization chief clashes between traction presidents and officials of the carmen's unions marked the joint conference held yesterday to see if some ground could be found upon which peace in the present street railway fight could be based nothing was accomplished another session will be held at 11 o'clock to-day when adjournment was taken neither side had made any comrromlse offer or submitted any figures for the considera tion of the other so bitter at times did the debate become that walter l fisher in whose offices thc conference was heid was forced to interfere the most sensa tional clash was betwc.n resident john m roach of the Chicago railway c bv pany and resident w d mahon of the rraen â€¢ this was caused by mahcn ridi ullng the first offer made br president kou'i to the employes for a new wage scale based on length of service according to that fir3t offer an employe after five year would receive 23 ceits an hour . tter_jen years 23 cents and after fifteen years 30 cents that is certainly a wonderful propo sition said president mahon following it to its logical conclusion an employe would be paid 31 cents after twenty year service then 32 cents for twenty-live years 33 for thirty years and then hy jumps of 5 cents an hour for . half a century he would be getting 1 an hour we do not want to wait a century for an increase in wages we want it right away while speaking president mabon fre quently pounded the table in front of bjm with great force to emphasize every word he said roach defends first offer that offer i made is better for the employes than your proposition aid president roach i believe in protect ing the old men while you believe iu sac rificing their interests for men yet to be hired president roach ended his statement by striking the table a terrific blow to show he was in earnest mahon tried to an swer but fisher raising in his chair and holding up his hands for attention ex claimed gentlemen gentlemen gentlemen after a few moments the excitement subsided when president roach told the union officials thnt no one had ever ac cused him of uot justly treating the em ployes of his company the conference was the first ever held hy the traction officials and employe jointly it was brought bout by a l fisher at the request * president mahon while the union offfe - had de cided to present their original demand they did not do so neither did the trac tion officials intimate what they would o the entire conference was a verbal spar ring match for position and was said t have resulted iu nothing more than bre-k ing the ice it is believed that the confer ence to-day will result in some definite understanding of what both sides want or how far they will go to maintain peace president mitten took a prominent part in the conference he clashed with presi dent mahon by stating that thc latter was apparently looking for some advantage for his union without admitting the rights of others guard old men says mitten this controversy must be settled right said president mitten the old men most be protected it used to be that the trac tion companies did their utmost to get something out of the city and the latter was everlastingly trying to do the same with the traction companies this situa tion caused endless trouble and then the city and companies got together and agreed upon st basis of settlement by which th rights of both are now protected it is the same with this wage contro versy it must be settled right not to the advantage of the union alone there is only so much money available for an advance in wagea this must be divided so that the old mew.lll be protected prop oily you are taking from the old men to give to the new men i am not doing anything of the kind replied mahon what we want is mora than wc had before instead of that yon force a new man to work for three yean before jie will receive as much as he would now hake in a year prcsidjeiit mlltcn said that g-aded scale to which presldeut mahon objected pr railed in all cities well we do not care what they do ik other cities replied iiahou we ars continued on 2d page sth column i f weather forecast m Chicago and vicinity pirtiy g cloudy tuesday and wednesday *Â£. with probably local showers con j __ tinued warm becoming cooler by fj*t wednesday night moderate to zm brisk southerly winds ejsul m don't think m t % of laying - this paper clown pa i r without first looking over 3 wl thewa'iftads m

Chicago examiner vol vii no 211 a m tuesday august 24 1909 price one cent Â» eu "Â« d carrier 30 cent per month curtiss gets speed recordat rheeime french fear he is conqueror by vance thompson aviators wonder how to win after the american goes 6 miles in 8 minutes thousands view flights bleriot offers to give motor to dare-devi latham so new yorker may lose special cable to the examiner rhiiims france aug glenn h curtiss the american aviator made a record here to-day he coveted one lap a distance of li l-o miles in s minutes 3 i!-5 seconds this is the official timing the speed contest admittedly lies be tween curtiss and the frenchman bletiot corliss said to-day i hope i will wiu but one never can tell what will happen 1 think my motoi is perfect 1 have taken every precaution but it is only tbirty-rtveborsepower and the odds are against me since bleriot has an eighty-horsepower engine curtiss early morning flights although only of ten minutes duration alarmed the frenchmen who timed him from start to finiish tbey hastily called a meeting of those interested in defending the french industries it was held iu a shed on thc aviation grounds bleriot said he feared ho was unable to beat the yankee cham pion and was willing to give way to any one more hopeful of outdoing curtiss offers his motor to latham he offered to put his so-horsepower motor in latham's machine this young dare devil being thc only man willing to risk his life in order to preserve french supremacy between 4 and g o'clock this afternoon the air was thick with fliers lefehvre iu a wrighr rose at 4:3a and made two rounds paulham in a voisiu was in the air one hour and seven minutes somnicr made two rounds sanchez bcsa the only spanish contestant fell after flyjng ten i yards at 5 o'clock live machines were ini the air cockburu buuau-yarilla bleriot | and omtner were all in line when laui liiut alongside paulham had au ' ex citing race with lefehvre as paulham was completing his fourth round bieriot with his eighty-horsepower monoplane swiftly overhauled and passed under the biplane he covered the lap before paulham had reached the back stretch and was received amid thunder of applause thousands there from paris attracted by thc sensational perform ance of yesterday when no less than six aeroplanes were seen at the same time winging their flight iu huge circles over u_e plain of betiieny thousands ot specta tors came down ou the early trains from paris and when the dirigible balloon colopel renard appeared over ihe field at 10 o'clock having come from meaux the tribunes and fences lining ihe field already were black with people the renard which i-s the first of the dirigible balloons to arrive carried ut a series of impressive evolutions above the plain cnrtiss the hammoudsport n i flyer w.ati out early and made a satisfactory tria flight of two kilometers bleriot with his eighty-horsepower machine astonished his competitors with the speed he devel oped he traveled so swiftly that curtiss confidence in his ability to capture the in terna tio ' enp has been somewhat shak 1 en this event is the principal feature of the meeting hubert latham has been chosen as the third aviator to represent france in the coot.st for the international cup thc hig evert of the week which will be run off next saturday the others are bleriot and lefebvre this decision was reached by the judges this morning after careful con sideration of the elimination contests held | yesterday tissandier paulham and som mer are alternates to latham tissandier who uses a wright biplane thus fnr holds thc speed record ouly one other wright machine that operated by scbreck re j ninins to compete iu this event the daring performances yesterday of lefebvre have made him extremely popu 1 lar but bleriot and latham still remain 1 the favorites of the crowd russian dirigible in seine occupants swim to safety paris i'rance aug 2_.-the bayard cleinent dirigible balloon built recently by the bayard-clement company for the russian government was wrecked to-day near maisons-laffltte during its prelim inary trial the aviators on board in cluding colonel nach of the russian army were not injured the airship made its ascent successfully and then came down without damage but while on the grouud a gust of wind tore the balloon from thc grasp of forty men who were holding it it was thrown i against trees and telegraph poles near bv ' ripping the gas bag to pieces the shin i ibcu tell into the river seine the four occupants had stuck to the car during i these happenings upon landing in the river they left the shattered ship and swam for the shore they were picked un ' by small boats ' : chicagoan's death a mystery kenosha wis aug 23 officials here are investigating the death of herman mar tin said to be a chicagoan whose bodv was found in twin lakes this afternoon a wound in thc head indicates murder lectin anie here a month ago and was working at u ice house banker-lawyer Taft picks for good place Taft to place h m hoyt or foreign tariff board first man definitely selected ap pointment already made is one report i t-_shix